Symptom descriptors and patterns in lumbar radicular pain caused by disc herniation: a 1-year longitudinal cohort study by Lars Grøvle, Anne Julsrud Haugen, Eivind Hasvik

“…Leg pain was rated as extremely bothersome by 73%, numbness and tingling by 38%, weakness by 24% and back pain by 17%. …”
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Functional Outcome (Short Term) of Modular Cementless Bipolar HemiArthroplasty (Hydroxyapatite-Coated Stem) for Fracture Neck of Femur in the Elderly by Navin K. Shukla, Lata Keshkar, Jayanta Mukherjee, Ratnesh Kumar, Shivendra Singh, Alok C. Agrawal

“…There was no difference in outcome, whether an injury occurred to the dominant or nondominant extremity. Complications occurred in seven (17.5%) patients. …”
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Retention of bimanual performance following hand arm bimanual intensive therapy in children with unilateral cerebral palsy: A six-month longitudinal study. by Shailesh S Gardas, Christine Lysaght, Charity Patterson, Swati M Surkar

“…Hand-arm bimanual intensive therapy (HABIT) enhances upper extremity (UE) function and bimanual coordination in children with unilateral cerebral palsy (UCP). …”
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Desenvolvimento rural do semiárido brasileiro: transformações recentes, desafios e perspectivas by Antonio Marcio Buainain, Junior Ruiz Garcia

“…Currently the Semiarid concentrates the largest share of Brazilian rural population living in poverty and extreme poverty conditions. Although this picture is still partially true, it does not take into account a “new” scenario that is emerging in this region fostered by public and private investments in infrastructure, industries, mines and agriculture, and by social policies as well. …”
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Side Effects and Patient Tolerance with the Use of Blood Flow Restriction Training after ACL Reconstruction in Adolescents: A Pilot Study by Jennifer Prue, Dylan P Roman, Nicholas G Giampetruzzi, Arthur Fredericks, Adel Lolic, Allison Crepeau, J. Lee Pace, Adam P Weaver

“…Reported minor side effects to BFRT included itchiness of the occluded limb (7.85%), lower extremity paresthesia (2.81%), and dizziness (0.75%). …”
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Characterization of New Particle Formation in Soft X-ray Radiolysis Reactor: AMCs-to-Secondary Inorganic Aerosols by Jiyoon Shin, Kyungil Cho, Yoonkyeong Ha, Giwon Kang, Jihye Park, Hunkwan Park, Changhyuk Kim

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Interaction Study of Oxygen and Iron-Sulfur Clusters Based on the Density Functional Theory by Jiancun Gao, Hongbin Sui, Siyuan Wu, Renyou Zhang, Mengxin Zhang, Bolun Cui, Huilin Chu

“…In this study, we explore the reason for the extremely easy oxidation and spontaneous burning of iron sulfide compounds from a microscopic perspective to provide a theoretical foundation for the prevention and control of iron sulfide compound spontaneous combustion in the petrochemical sector.…”
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Misdiagnosis of Leprosy with Severe Reversal Reaction as Psoriatic Arthritis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Gunawan H, Hidayah RMN, Ruchiatan K, Pangastuti M, Usman HA, Amalia F

“…There were anesthetic and hypoestetic erythematous plaques covered by thick scales on both upper and lower extremities and epigastric region. Non-tender enlargements with a rubbery consistency were found on the right great auricular nerve and both common peroneal nerves. …”
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Screening and Characterization of Thermostable Amylase-Producing Bacteria Isolated from Soil Samples of Afdera, Afar Region, and Molecular Detection of Amylase-Coding Gene by Semira Nureddin Yassin, Tamene Milkessa Jiru, Meera Indracanti

“…Studying thermostable amylase-producing bacteria in extreme environments has a crucial role to overcome different industrial challenges. …”
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Introducing an integrated approach for fire safety assessment in healthcare facilities by interval valued neutrosophic-AHP and Fuzzy Inference System by Samaneh Salari, Ali Karimi

“…Fire safety in healthcare facilities is extremely important due to limited evacuation capacity of occupants. …”
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Toward an Efficient Differentiation of Two <i>Diaporthe</i> Strains Through Mass Spectrometry for Fungal Biotyping by Kathleen Hernández-Torres, Daniel Torres-Mendoza, Gesabel Navarro-Velasco, Luis Cubilla-Rios

“…Considering that fungi display a great morphological, ecological, metabolic, and phylogenetic diversity, their taxonomic identification is extremely important because it helps us establish important information about each species and its possible biochemical and ecological roles. …”
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Smallholder farmers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices towards biological control of papaya mealybug in Kenya by Kate Constantine, Fernadis Makale, Idah Mugambi, Harrison Rware, Duncan Chacha, Alyssa Lowry, Ivan Rwomushana, Frances Williams

“…Biological control is extremely sustainable in the smallholder production context, but in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) few attempts using this pest control method for arthropod pests have been successful, with one of the key reasons cited as poor involvement of farming communities and extension in the dissemination of information. …”
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Loosened hip joint prosthesis-decision options by Byser Bonchev, Tsvetoslav Yordanov, Luben Stokov, Teodor Ivanov, Georgi Georgiev, Luben Lubenov Stokov, Kristian Nastev

“… - Hip joint prosthesis (luxation) because of trauma or extremely wrong motion we notice in 5 patients. In one of them we revealed acetabular cup malposition…”
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A New Risk Score Based on Lipid Indicators for Patients with Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Wei X, Guo Z, Zhang T, Liang J

“…., Ltd, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of General Surgery, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, State Key Laboratory of Digestive Health, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Beijing, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Jun Liang, Email Junl1959@163.comBackground: The prognosis is extremely troubling in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). …”
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The genomes of Scedosporium between environmental challenges and opportunism by Francesco Venice, Federica Spina, Domenico Davolos, Stefano Ghignone, Giovanna Cristina Varese

“…We sequenced two novel genomes of Scedosporium aurantiacum and Scedosporium minutisporum isolated from extreme, strongly anthropized environments. We compared all the available Scedosporium and Microascaceae genomes, that we systematically annotated and characterized ex novo in most cases. …”
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Tensile properties of domestic Al2O3f/Al2O3 composite at room temperature and 1000 ℃ by ZHANG Ke, XU Ping, ZHANG Chao, LI Chenchen, YING Wenqing, XING Ning, LI Mei, ZHANG Chengyu

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Farmers’ knowledge of using flood forecast information in fish farming: A case of rural Bangladesh by Shonia Sheheli, Mst. Sharmin Akter, Md Anamul Haque, Mohammad Maruf Hasan

“…The effects of global climate change and extreme weather events are threatening Bangladesh's fish and aquaculture productivity. …”
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Algorithm of selecting the tear replacement therapy in ambulatory practice by V.V. Brzheskiy

“…<br> The severity of the xerotic process determines the patient compliance to preparations with certain viscosity: preservative-free low-viscosity preparations are effective in case of mild and extremely severe xerosis, preservative-free high viscosity preparations and gels are most effective in moderate and severe xerosis, respectively.…”
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Significance of surfactant proteins in respiratory distress syndrome in preterm infants by İ.A. Mirzayeva, R.O. Baylarov, Y.A. Gasimova, P.A. Orujova

“…The study involved 80 very low birth weight infants with respiratory distress (2a - subgroup RDS, 2b - pneumonia), 42 extremely low birth weight infants (3a - RDS and 3b - pneumonia subgroups), and 20 children without respiratory distress (control group - 1). …”
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Prevalence and associated factors of diabetes among adult populations of Hawassa town, southern Ethiopia: A community based cross-sectional study. by Getu Kassa Belete, Hlupheka Lawrence Sithole

“…Exploring preventable risk factors are extremely important because of their potential association and interaction with diabetes. …”
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